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MUSICAL AND LITERAIiY MISCELLANY.
CONTENTED IN THE VALE.
Siciliana.
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Let senators and statesmen great,
Together disagree.
While 1 remain in humble state.
Both unconcern' d and free.
No dunns to interrupt my joys,
No troubles to assail,
I'd live retir'd from care and noise.
Contented in the vale.
The stately oak that proudly held
Dominion o'er the plains,
Is by the furious tempest fell'd,
The humble reed remains.
Then may I envy not the hill,
Nor at my fortune rail,
Eut unconstrain'd continue still
Contented in the vale.
WITHOUT A RIVAL.
" There was never anything so beautiful from
the palette of a mere mortal !" exclaimed old Berto
Linaiulo.
" The boy has signed a contract with the father
of mischief, for by no other means that I know
eonld this be effected ! " added Antonello.
No. 6J.
" What delicacy — what brilliancy — what har-
mony of colouring!" observed Donato.
" I really am perplexed and confounded," rejoined
Berto. " I begin lo believe there is magic in it."
"AH the master spirits of Florence," remarked
a fair lady of high rank, who, among the rest, had
come to gaze upon the painting — " all the master
spirits of Florence may hide their heads now "